Odd to be sitting here at the old poker table (the roomie has a poker table that we keep in the dining room-- it's a nice one, homemade) waiting on any number of things to roll over so I can get out of the house for the day. The two most vital:

- The #2 battery is charging. Dragging the laptop with me to the bar today. Even if the second (actually, original) battery is crap, it is still an extra hour and change of on-time. I'd rather have it, than not.
- The paycheck needs to go ahead and clear. I am *not* compulsively checking my balance every five minutes... I'm just now noticing all these nice features on my bank's website. [*cough*]

Plan A for today is to pound out 4 hours worth of lovely, lovely novel. Plan B is to instead do the bulk music review, and post that here. Before I get around to writing either, I have a few errands to run, which shouldn't take more than a couple hours... which means if I've timed it right I'll be pulling into a bar right as the lunch crowd is going back to work. And this is just where I'm starting...

I have two days off, and I plan to make the most of them. I haven't had a weekend off in forever (and I won't for another month, if memory serves) so I just have to make the most of what I've got. Today I'm writing/drinking the the afternoon, then this evening I'm meeting up with friends to play trivia at the local Jocks&Jills (with, I'm sure, some more drinking) then tomorrow night I'm paying a call at the local to remind myself that it's only a bunch of assholes that hang out there (um, why do I hang out there again?) but at least I can smoke my pipe and haunt a dark corner for an hour or five.

this is how I spiritually recharge. and to be honest, I've been pushing it pretty hard for work and I haven't had nearly enough beer to counteract that. yet.